The film of Vera Storozhevoy "Traveling with pets"

I would like to begin with a small digression. In the famous film "The Man from the Boulevard of the Capuchins" the main character was called "Mr. Fest", that is, First. This man brought to a provincial American town a cinematograph that radically changed the lives of local inhabitants. These were films about love and betrayal, dramas and comedies, they made people cry and laugh, get better and deeper into themselves. And then the town came "Mr. Second", that is, the Second. He brought absolutely other films: stupid, vulgar, but entertaining and understandable. And this second grade seemed to the residents of the town more interesting, it was in favor of such a cinematograph that they made their choice.

Since then, in art in general and in the cinema art in particular, nothing has changed. There are films that are intelligent, beautiful, affecting the soul and exciting mind, which change the viewer for the better, and there are all the rest. The film by Vera Storozhevoy "Traveling with pets" belongs to the first category.

It was filmed in 2007 by the studio "Elephant" and in the same year was awarded the highest award of the 29th Moscow International Film Festival. In the main role in it actress Ksenia Kutepova acted, the central role of the second plan was played by Dmitry Dyuzhev.

The main heroine of the movie "Traveling with pets" Natalia - a wild, silent young woman who until the age of 35 remained in the cocoon of life, chosen for her by others. Her childhood passed in the orphanage. When the girl turned sixteen, she was "sold" to his wife by an unknown stranger. So she lived on a lonely half-station, not seeing anything except passing trains, unsociable, still someone else's "master" (as she called her husband) and her cow. The story of Natalya's life begins at the moment when the "master" dies, and she remains alone. To itself "mistress". For the first time she saw herself and everything around her with her own eyes. The cocoon that held it all these years, opened, and a woman was born. She is only 35, she is able to love and be loved, the whole world is open to her, and she is learning to open to meet him.

"Traveling with pets" is a film-parable. Natalia meets people who go through her life, bringing with her something new, but without changing the essence of her personality. She gets acquainted with the driver Sergei (Dyuzhev), to whom he feels the first strong feelings, but does not allow him to stay close and again drive her into the old rut.

The second person with whom the woman talks more than once is a local priest who is engaged in the restoration of the temple. He tells Natalia that it is necessary to live in love, and without it, sin.

The heroine decides to change his life abruptly and move away from this gloomy shabby house, but can not leave his only friends - a dog and a goat (the cow by that time she sold), so she embarks on a journey with pets on a boat.

The ultimate goal of her journey is the orphanage in which she grew up. This is the only place, besides the half-station, which she knows, and in which they know her. Here she meets her former classmate - a tall, awkward person who has stayed at the orphanage as a physical education teacher. This person speaks a phrase that characterizes not only the film "Traveling with pets", but also in general how our life is arranged. When asked by Natalia about the family, he replies: "No, he did not. High difficult. And it's difficult for the little ones. The average is good. "

The movie ends with the fact that Natalia "takes" the boy from the orphanage, because she always dreamed of children and because he is as lonely and as red as she is. The goat leaves it to the "children" fresh milk, and swims away on his boat across the boundless river to meet fate with their only companions - a child and a dog.

Very feminine turned out the picture "Traveling with pets." She collected the responses contradictory, but mostly laudatory. In order to make your own idea of this film, free one evening, redo all the cases, sit alone in front of the screen and look at it.